Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Levy, Steven
Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Levy, Steven

Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes...
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Author: Steven Levy
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Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Levy, Steven

Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

$48.30
Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Levy, Steven

Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

$48.30
Author: Steven Levy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.

Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved in creating the iPod -- including Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic cofounder and CEO, whom he has known for over twenty years. In telling the story behind the iPod, Levy explains how it went from the drawing board to global sensation. He also examines how this deceptively diminutive gadget raises a host of new technical, legal, social, and musical questions (including the all-important use of one's playlist as an indicator of coolness), and writes about where the iPhenomenon might go next in his new Afterword. Sharp and insightful, The Perfect Thing is part history and part homage to the device that we can't live without.

Author: Steven Levy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.76w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780743285230

About the Author
Levy, Steven: - Steven Levy is editor at large at Wired magazine. The Washington Post has called him "America's premier technology journalist." His was previously founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology and is the author of several previous books including Facebook: The Inside Story; Insanely Great; The Perfect Thing; and In the Plex. He lives in New York City.

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